| The first year I had enough humus from the wood but | | | | earth without plants till January. In Germany I did this |
| the vegetables and flowers have eat it fast. The soil | | | | work in autumn and in late spring I start to plant new. |
| has de-composted and I had to work under organic | | | | A part of my garden I let without manure for the garlic |
| matter dug. I made a potting compost but it wasn't | | | | and the onions, there I take only compost green, this |
| much and the breakdown process was not completed, | | | | give not quick results as it is slow to activate but for |
| this process needs 12 month and more, so I bought | | | | the next turn to put the clove of garlic in the earth are |
| animal manure. | | | | always enough time. The onions I sow in September in |
| My father had have a farm so I know that the | | | | a warm frame with much cow manure and take the |
| farmyard manure, a mixture of droppings of horses, | | | | young plants in February in the earth. |
| we had one named Lodi, pigs or cows, including their | | | | The yearly flowers need a good earth, the perennial |
| urine and the straw used for their bedding, was the | | | | flowers and plants didn't need much manure. |
| best for my garden. | | | | Specially roses didn't need nothing as an good 15/15/15 |
| In Sicily isn't to find farmyard manure in this mixture. I | | | | two times in the year, three times a move of the earth |
| found cow manure, which is wet, cold, low in nutrients | | | | with the pick around the rose and a good cut in spring, |
| and decompose slowly in the soil. Near the town is a | | | | in Sicily. In Germany I covered the earth in winter. |
| family with many horses, they sell the horse manure, | | | | For the beds of yearly flowers I use sand, cow |
| what the best organic fertilizer for the vegetables and | | | | manure, compost, which is half breakdown, and my |
| a warm manure. In the country is a farm with pigs, but | | | | earth a mix of clay and chalk soil. I let this mixture on a |
| the manure is slowly acting but long lasting. | | | | rubble and turn every month the rubble completely. |
| However, I took cow manure, behind the house isn't | | | | After an half year I make a new rubble and the turn |
| place for a tractor so I breaking up the earth by hand. | | | | begins again. Important is that the rubble always is a |
| Before I start with the spading-fork, I cover the earth | | | | little bit wet. |
| with the manure, than I do as deep as the spading-fork | | | | I have a shredder for the wood, so the branches |
| and turn every spadeful completely. This work I make | | | | breakdown earlier. I use this wood shredded also for |
| here in Sicily after the harvest of tomatoes and let the | | | | my garden, when the earth is very closely. |